Campbell´s Soup Painting

Welcome to the reign of swarm intelligence. From afar, it looks like someone painted a female body. But when you come closer, you see hundreds of butterflys. Are they still alive? What looks like the random landing place of butterflys, suddenly turns out to be a 3-D work of art. Every butterfly was carefully cut out and pinned onto its place. A visually stunning effect, phillosphically speaking a promising prospect – life as a metmorphosis, as a continuous emergence and pupation. Forms wear off, their seperate parts reincarnerate as butterflys and evolve into a new form. Ben Büchner's background in advertising is easily recognized when he applies his cut-up art to a can of Campbell's tomato soup. Will the can fly away in an instant once we turn around? Everything is transient. And underlies the constant flow of change. Maybe it is really true: everything is alive and all which is whole is a composition of entire pieces. Every piece is a passing unity in itself. Temporarily assembled to form a can, then two cherries and so on.... Ben Büchner began his career as a Graffiti and Pop-Art artist. It took him an entire decade to find to his cut-up art. Did it come naturally? It emerged. Ben's objects tell stories which reveal themselves only gradually. Observation turns into reflection on life, transcience, the rambling of things and the inner intelligence of every single piece. The beautiful side of swarm intelligence.